eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 4h093 SOUTHERN RAILWAY CANTERBURY linen 25x40 English travel poster 1938 art of the cathedral, rare! Date Sold 3/3/2019Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A Linenbacked English Travel Poster (measures 25" x 40" [64 x 102 cm]) (Learn More) Southern Railway: Canterbury, the 1938 English railroad railway train travel poster encouraging people to use Southern Railway when visiting Canterbury, and featuring art of the Canterbury Cathedral. The Southern Railway (sometimes shortened to "Southern") was a British railway company established in the 1923 by merging several existing railway companies into a single entity. The railway linked London with the Channel ports, South West England, South coast resorts and Kent. The railway was noted for its astute use of public relations and a coherent management structure headed by Sir Herbert Walker. The Southern Railway played a vital role in the World War II (WWII), embarking the British Expeditionary Force, during the Dunkirk operations, and supplying Operation Overlord (D-Day) in 1944; because the railway was primarily a passenger network, its success was an even more remarkable achievement. The Southern Railway operated a number of famous named trains, including the Brighton Belle, the Bournemouth Belle, the Golden Arrow and the Night Ferry. The Southern Railway was nationalized in 1948, becoming the Southern Region of British Railways. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that this poster is very rare. We have never auctioned it before! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster was never folded. It had a 5" tear in the right of the top border, in the background area, and a 3" tear near the center of the top border, just slightly entering the edge of the building. It had some smaller tears around the edges, with pinholes in the corners. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was pretty well backed, but you can see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects. Learn More about condition grades
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